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Totality and Feminist Life
Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici’s Writing on Lukács’ Aesthetics Reading & Discussion Event Series January – April 2025 Silvia Federici is best known as an autonomist feminist and theorist for her groundbreaking work on the intersections of gender, labor, and capitalism. She has been a leading voice in the global feminist movement, particularly…
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Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 21 Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism In this episode of Minor Compositions we delve into the complex intersections of gender, power, and contemporary alt-right and neofascist politics with Jack Bratich and Ewa Majewska. Drawing on Bratich’s On Microfascism: Gender, Death, and War and Majewska’s Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common, the…
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The Arts of Logistics
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 20 The Arts of Logistics with Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine W Ho This episode is a conversation around the new book The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism by Michael Shane Boyle. For this conversation we are joined by Elaine Ho, who artistic practice explores similar areas.…
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Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 19 Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton For this episode we talk with Jamie Hamilton, a football coach and tactical writer based at Ayr United in Scotland. Hamilton is best known for coining the idea of relationism in football, which is an approach that emphasizes emergent patterns of play…
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Anxiety as Vibration
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 18 Anxiety as Vibration with Ana Minozzo For this episode we talk with we chat Ana Minozzo about her new book Anxiety as Vibration: A Psychosocial Cartography. What can anxiety do if approach anxiety not simply as a problem to be solved, but also as a potential site of rupture and…
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Aesthetic Protest Cultures
Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The avant-garde is dead… long live the avant-garde Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde offers a new way of analysing and theorizing the question of the avant-garde today. It is customary within art history and cultural history to argue that the avant-garde disappeared as…
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Militant Aesthetics
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 17 Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang For this episode we talk with art historian and painter Martin Lang about this book Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century. How are practices of art activism changing in the current political and media climate? What tensions exist within these forms of political…
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Sports & the Avant-Garde
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 16 Sports & the Avant-Garde with Przemysław Strożek For this episode we talk with Przemysław Strożek about the relationship between avant-garde arts and sports in the 1920s and 1930s. We discuss two of his books, one as editor: Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945); and one as sole author: Picturing the…
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Communist Ontologies
Communist Ontologies. An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life Bruno Gullì & Richard Gilman-Opalsky “To be communist is to be lost, looking for an answer, looking for a way out. Communist Ontologies is an explicit dialogue between Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky. The book breaks with the monologue form, brings us away…
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The Wages of Dreamwork
The Wages of Dreamwork. Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor Stevphen Shukaitis & Joanna Figiel Surviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated as engines of economic growth, economic recovery and urban revitalization even as the conditions for our continued survival…
